Someone said to a preacher after worship on Ascension Sunday, “Pastor, that was the best ascension sermon I ever heard. Now, grant it, that was the only ascension sermon I…
The Holy Spirit has many names. Advocate, companion, breath, wind, like a dove, paraclete, helper. The list goes on. Hard to describe something you cannot see. May not see with…
Jesus is speaking in what we sometimes call the farewell discourse. Jesus will be leaving soon. They will be left to carry on. A Quaker author/ pastor wrote about graduation…
Isaiah is speaking to a broken people. We also hear in the Psalms: 18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18 It…
Every Sunday after Easter the suggested reading is about Thomas. Many of you know the story. Jesus appeared to the disciples, but Thomas wasn’t there. When he came back to…
When I was a child, my family had a donkey. We loved that donkey so much. We often rode it. This is a picture of my brother and me riding…
Today we read from John’s gospel. The gospel of John was written last, after the other 3 gospels were written and told. If alive at all, the witnesses would be…
This story is so familiar to many of us. It is one that must be told often. We want to read it and absorb it often. The story of two…
Here in the sanctuary, this past week we had a children’s chapel with the nursery school. I lead chapel for them every month. This month I decided to show on…
"Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits. These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey…